Be a Part of the Solution: Speak Out Today

By REP. MAC THORNBERRY (R-TX) Guest Contributor There is a lot of frustration and disappointment with Washington these days. Americans want lawmakers to focus on the essentials — an economy creating new jobs and high living standards and national security to protect us from a variety of threats. Instead, this Democratic Congress has pushed a [...]

Garbage In, Garbage Out — The Real Cost of Health Reform

By REP. MIKE COFFMAN (R-CO) Guest Contributor In the final days leading up to passage of the health care bill, and in the days since, Democrats have touted claims that the legislation will reduce the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next two decades. These claims are utterly false, and it doesn’t take [...]

ACORN Filmmakers Giles, O’Keefe Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court

Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe III, the independent filmmakers behind the series of videos which swept the nation in 2009 and exposed internal corruption and illegality within ACORN Housing Corporation, were sued today in federal court in Philadelphia by an ACORN employee featured in one of the pair’s films. The plaintiff is Katherine Conway-Russell, a [...]

Boston Tea Party 2.0

As the sun rises this morning and bathes in pinks and reds and yellows the frost-covered expanses of the fruited plain, Americans everywhere are stirring.  America’s true awakening, however,  came last night in the form of victory at the polls for Scott Brown, an unknown state senator from Wrentham, Massachusetts only a few months ago, [...]